Congratulations! You are about to harness the incredible capabilities of the latest version of Microsoft Office: Office 2010. Microsoft Office has been the gold standard for application suites for many years and provides all the applications that you need for a wide variety of tasks. Whether you are writing a novel, balancing your budget, managing your emails and contacts, or creating an important sales presentation, you will find all the features and tools that you need to get the job done.

If you have used Microsoft Office in the past but have not upgraded in the last few years, you will find that the Office applications have undergone a substantial makeover that enables you to work even more quickly and efficiently. All the Office applications embrace the Ribbon-based Office Fluent interface, providing an intuitive interface that enables you to get up and running in Office applications that you might not have used in the past.

As personal computing moved from a somewhat solitary environment to a new world of connectivity and collaboration, Microsoft enriched the Microsoft Office applications to make it easier for you to communicate and collaborate with other users on your business or home network and via the Internet. Office collaboration tools make it easier for you to share files and to review documents edited by colleagues.

This latest version of Office also takes into account the fact that we all now work in a much more graphically rich computing environment and typically create files that include images, diagrams, and other graphics. Office 2010 provides greatly improved tools for working with digital images, and makes it easy for you to create a variety of graphics that greatly enhanced the visual impact of your documents, worksheets, and presentations.